I think there should be some incentive for that, like make those kinds of comments a spotlight or something. Maybe make a community called “late replies” that showcases the best such replies, or have a rule saying they grant free karma (in Reddit’s case).
RemindMe! 5 months
Never. God no, why?
People only ever replying to new things makes it seem less like a community.
More than five months ago
(I sort by new on Lemmy lol)
Every once in a blue moon, I’ll skim over my saved posts and comments. Even more rare, occasionally I might respond months later if I think I apparently forgot to respond when the thread was fresh.
Just a couple or few days ago I responded to a comment from like 6 months ago where someone asked me for a link to a project of mine.
Regardless, that’s very rare, even for me.
I sort by new and always mean to go back to look at old things but usually forget. Guess i need to hit the hot button occasionally.
Waiting 5 months to reply to this.
Well you blew your load in 11hrs.
Whoa. Tantric.
Question in post was never about replying for the first time.
I was just kidding
I haven’t recently, but when I am trying to solve a problem and come across a post/comment which does a great job of helping me out, I’ll sometimes post a “thank you” to the author. On the receiving end of things, I had posted a couple of kinda useful scripts in the PowerShell sub-reddit and would get both “thank yous” and questions regarding those scripts from time to time. I also had a really popular post (it’s still linked in the wiki) in the cordcutters sub-reddit which elicited questions years later.
Otherwise, this experience is far more common.
I kudos answers constantly. Half the time it’s my own, which means my account knew the answer and posted it, but I remember none of this.
I may be multiple personalities, and I may not even be the smart one.
April 18th.
If I see the person still active on the platform I’ll try my luck. Otherwise if it seems like they are the only ones on the whole internet who (possibly) knows how to help with my problem, but that’ll more likely result in a DM.
I commented on a 9 y/o Reddit thread yesterday
It almost time to celebrate the 12th birthday of “can splunk stop being absolutely fucking clueless and claiming their stupidity is a legal problem only they suffer” ticket about authenticated yum repos.
Usually I find my own answer to a Stack Overflow problem I’m having today, but I wrote it two years ago. And that means I’ll have that time machine one day. Woot!
I think that might happen more often on mastodon, since if you reply to a thread there, it gets boosted to all your followers.
It might be interesting to add a sorting method to Lemmy, that would bump posts every time a comment is added.
Perhaps something to turn on for each community individually ?
“sort by recent comments” and “show posts I’ve seen but with new comments”?
Both settings I don’t know actually exist.
Within the last year, I’ve definitely had some replies to old threads of mine. And if it’s a question, I’ll respond. And I think I did comment on another’s thread at least once, confirming and thanking them for the solution. All of these were tech support related. I feel like that’s one of the few topical areas where that’s acceptable.
Gonna have to come back here in five months
Last week
